This just in! Due to a minor SNAFU, the release date of the hardcover compilation of War Cry has been pushed back a bit. The new dates are:

11/19: Direct Market
11/25: Book Market.

“Direct Market” refers to dedicated comics stores, including online comics stores like Dynamite and Midtown Comics. “Book Market” is everything else, including brick-and-mortar bookstores and sites like Amazon and B&N.

As a peace offering, here’s a five-page section from issue #2 of the graphic novel.

This 144-page hardcover collects all five issues of the original Harry Dresden War Cry comic book series by Jim Butcher, Mark Powers, and Carlos Gomez. It also features the complete comic book cover illustrations from Stjepan Sejic and Carlos Gomez!

You can preorder your copy from your favorite local comic store, Amazon, B&N, or Dynamite. Dynamite is also offering copies signed by Jim! Supply of the signed edition is limited, so if you’re interested, definitely jump on that opportunity!

War Cry is coming, and we’ve got the jacket art to prove it! Order a copy from your favorite local comics shop or comic-friendly independent bookstore, or preorder a copy from Amazon or B&N from our store! It will be released November 11th.

This 144-page hardcover collects all five issues of the original Harry Dresden War Cry comic book series by Jim Butcher, Mark Powers, and Carlos Gomez. It also features the complete comic book cover illustrations from Stjepan Sejic and Carlos Gomez!

BIGFOOT FOUND

Curious about the reference to Harry’s client River Shoulders in Skin Game? Jim’s trilogy of Bigfoot short stories is a bonus book in this month’s Story Bundle!

How it works:

Pay-what-you like for five books by awesome indy authors, including Kevin J. Anderson, Elizabeth Bear!

Pay at least $14 and get the five bonus titles, including Jim Butcher, P.N. Elrod, Michael A. Stackpole and more!

Read all their books on your tablet, e-reader, laptop, or smartphone, DRM free!

Jim’s “Working for Bigfoot” collection unites the three Bigfoot stories published in 2012: “B is for Bigfoot,” originally in Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron; “I Was a Teenage Bigfoot,” originally in Blood Lite 3: Aftertaste, and “Bigfoot on Campus,” originally in Hex Appeal. If you don’t want to wait another year or so for Brief Cases, sequel to Side Jobs, this is your chance to learn all about the times Harry took a case from one of the few people out there taller than he is.

Also, Penguin heard the fan demand and has republished Storm Front in hardcover! If you’re as fastidious as we are about your books being a uniform size, or you’re as hard as Harry is on paperbacks, or you’re a completist, you’ll want to snatch up a copy! If Penguin feels there’s sufficient fan interest, they’ll re-release other Dresden books in hardcover, so if that’s you, vote with your dollars!

This hardcover graphic novel compiles all five issues of the critically claimed, original Dresden Files story by Jim Butcher and Mark Powers, illustrated by Carlos Gomez, set a few months after Dead Beat.

A war is raging between the vampire forces of the Red Court and the White Council – a war that the wizards are losing. So desperate are the Council that they’ve dragooned the experienced and the outcast to reinforce their thinning ranks of Wardens. One of these draftees is one Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only wizard-for-hire and a guy who’s long been looked upon with suspicion by the supernatural authorities. Now, he’s one of them, and his first big mission as a Warden is a doozy: take a small team of greenhorns to a frigid town in the middle of nowhere to rescue a handful of mortals who’ve been targeted by the Red Court. The question is, why exactly are these particular mortals so crucial to the outcome of the war? The answer will come only if Harry can keep them, and his team, alive for one very long night.

Go to your favorite local retailer today to order a copy, or preorder through Amazon or B&N via our store!

Missed Dragon*Con? No worries! Forum member AndiSue has the goods! She recorded and uploaded all six of Jim’s panels that allowed filming, for your viewing pleasure. Check them out on her YouTube playlist.

WAR CRY #4

Also, issue #4 (of 5) of War Cry is out today! War Cry is an original Dresden Files graphic novel set between Dead Beat and Proven Guilty, written by Jim Butcher and Mark Powers and illustrated by Carlos Gomez. Click here for a five-page preview!

We have a clarification for Jim’s signing at the Badali booth at DragonCon. A fan pointed out that the 2pm signing is just one hour after the dealer’s hall opens at 1pm, so instead, the Badali folks advise fans to email badalijewelry (at) badalijewelry.com and request a free timed ticket in advance. If any tickets remain the day of the signing, they will be given out to fans on a first-come, first-served basis as soon as the dealer’s hall opens.

ALS ICE BUCKET CHALLENGE

After being challenged by author Larry Correia and Dresden Files Fan Filming actress Mandie Reese, Jim enlisted his nieces and nephews in an act of charitable siliness! For those who have been hiding under rocks the past week or so, the Ice Bucket Challenge involves daring people to either donate $100 to the ALS Association or post a video of you dumping a bucket of ice water on your head and donate $10. Many do both! Here’s Jim’s video:

DRM-FREE DRESDEN

Dynamite Comics, publishers of the Dresden Files graphic novels, have launched a DRM-Free endeavor! You can pick up the current story, War Cry, at Dynamite Digital. During the launch, they’re donating 10% of all sales across the board to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. They’re also offering 10 Dynamite #1’s at .10 cents to help celebrate their 10th Anniversary! Check it out.